8.0%
▼ 5.4 pts vs 2024
share of AAAI's accepted papers on responsible AI in 2025
20192025
What the chart shows
At the four general AI conferences tracked, responsible AI papers made up about 8% of accepted work in 2025: 8.0% at AAAI and NeurIPS, and 7.6% at ICML and ICLR. AAAI’s share fell from 13.4% in 2024, its highest in the series.
The specialist conferences are different: responsible AI was 67.4% of accepted papers at FAccT and 54.7% at AIES in 2025. AIES’s share has risen from 18.6% in 2019; FAccT’s has stayed between 61% and 73% throughout.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| AAAI, 2025 | 8.00% |
| AAAI, 2024 | 13.36% |
| NeurIPS, 2025 | 7.98% |
| ICML, 2025 | 7.65% |
| ICLR, 2025 | 7.62% |
| FAccT, 2025 | 67.43% |
How to read it
- FAccT (fairness, accountability and transparency) and AIES (AI, ethics and society) are specialist conferences; AAAI, ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS are general AI conferences.
- The report text gives ICML’s 2025 share as 7.7%; the data (7.645%) rounds to 7.6%, which we use.
Source: AI Index, 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 3.4.3: Responsible AI papers accepted (% of total) at select AI conferences by conference, 2019–25. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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